Hurricane Sandy before And after in 70 Pictures & Latest Videos

FIFTY DEAD…and it’s NOT over: Obama’s grim warning as he prepares to visit scenes of hurricane ‘major disaster’ tomorrow

• Storm damage projected at £12bn // Ten people in New York among the dead // Many killed by falling trees
• President Barack Obama has declared a ‘major disaster’ in New York and Long Island
• President announces that he will visit New Jersey on Wednesday and warns that the crisis ‘is not yet over’
• At least 7.4m properties across US East have lost power // New York City could be without power for a week
• NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg: ‘Tragically we expect that number to go up’ referring to New York death toll
• Record 13ft storm surge threatening lower Manhattan and howling winds left crane hanging from high-rise building
• Over 15,000 flights across the globe grounded due to Superstorm Sandy
• NYU Hospital loses backup power and evacuates patients // Nuclear power plant on alert
• More than 190 firefighters battled blaze destroying more than 80 homes in Breezy Point
• Stock trading is closed in the US again for a second day running -  last time it was closed for two days was 1888
• Classified as a post-tropical cyclone, Sandy is expected to turn north and track back into New York state tonight
• Rising water rushes into an underground parking garage in the financial district

Hurricane Sandy hits New York City

Winds are picking up and waves are increasing in size as Hurricane Sandy gets closer to the New York City coast on Oct. 29, 2012. Here, waves crash along the shore of Coney Island.

Wrecked: A construction site sinks into a large hole on South Street Seaport – the clean-up operation is expected to cost over £12 billion

Uprooted: This picture provided by the US Coast Guard shows property damage along the New Jersey coast caused by Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday

Vermin: Stock picture of rats in New York. Rats could come into contact with humans as they seek safety from the flood.

Rats escaping New York floods could infest homes.Urban rats carry wide range of diseases, including plague

Homes devastated by fire and the effects of Hurricane Sandy at Breezy Point in the Queens neighbourhood of New York

Power storm: The full force of the storm is evident by the way a metal shutter has been ripped from the wall

Chaos: A boat moved by gushing waters rests on the tracks at Metro-North’s Ossining Station on the Hudson Line

Lost in the fire: A woman stands among the still-smouldering remains of homes which burned down in the Breezy Point area of Queens in New York

Toy: A doll’s head can be seen among the charred remains of a house destroyed by fire in the aftermath of the post-tropical storm

View from above: This aerial photograph shows burned-out homes in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York after the fire

Search: Aviators of the 1-150th Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey National Guard, look for displaced residents along the coastline of Seaside Heights today

Trashed: Cars float up from a car garage in a mixture of floodwater and gasoline in lower Manhattan as workers begin the process of pumping out the mess

Wrecked: A man looks at an uprooted tree which fell on a car when Superstorm Sandy swept through the Brooklyn borough of New York

Broken home: A man and child look in disbelief at a collapsed house in the Cosey Beach neighborhood of East Haven, Connecticut

Damaged: A building that had its facade ripped off by Hurricane Sandy – beds and radiators can be seen in the block

Dangerous: A cordon is put up around scaffolding which collapsed in New York after Superstorm Sandy caused widespread damage in the city

Seawater floods the Ground Zero construction site

A giant wave along Chicago’s lakefront threatens to swallow a photographer.
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Hurricane Sandy downs crane in NYC

Wind gusts 90 stories above the abandoned streets of New York City have caused a crane to collapse near 57th St. and Seventh Ave. in Manhattan on Oct. 29, 2012. No one has been injured, but police and firefighters are on hand as the structure dangles over the Big Apple.

Atlantic City, NJ hit by Hurricane Sandy

The casinos in Atlantic City, NJ were ordered closed by noon on Oct. 29, 2012 by Gov. Chris Christie. By that time, water had already flooded the boardwalk and adjacent casinos.

 
Rising water from the Hudson River overtakes a bank drive-through in Edgewater, N.J., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast. The powerful storm made the westward lurch and took dead aim at New Jersey and Delaware on Monday, washing away part of the Atlantic City boardwalk, putting the presidential campaign on hold and threatening to cripple Wall Street and the New York subway system with an epic surge of seawater.

Vehicles are submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain.

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Destruction: Cars floating after being pushed out a flooded basement in the city during last night’s battering

Fleet in the floods: Yellow cabs in a parking lot are surrounded by water after Superstorm Sandy struck Hoboken, New Jersey

Caleb Lavoie, 17, of Dayton, Maine, front, and Curtis Huard, 16, of Arundel, Maine, leap out of the way as a large wave crashes over a seawall on the Atlantic Ocean during the early stages of Hurricane Sandy, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Kennebunk, Maine.

Shore Parkway braces for Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy is currently about 500 miles wide and winds up to 175 miles per hour can be expected as it makes landfall over New York City.

A national guard humvee drives through floodwater on patrol in Ocean City, Maryland

 

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First light over Manhattan as New York woke up on Tuesday. Much of the island is without power and much of the city remains closed.

Thousands of trees were blown down in the gale, here damaging cars in Brooklyn, New York.

A man rides his bicycle under the arc made by a tree knocked down by Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba. (Photo by Franklin Reyes/Associated Press)

High winds blow sea foam onto Jeanette’s Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy move into the area on Sunday. (Photo by Gerry Broome/Associated Press)

High winds blow sea foam into the air as a person walks across Jeanette’s Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina. (Photo by Gerry Broome/Associated Press)

High wind gusts produce a familiar scene like this car damaged by tree branches on Oct. 29, 2012.

Power outage in Manhattan

Beached: A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sits on the shore where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighborhood of New York’s Staten Island

Livelihood damaged: A man cleans up the remains of his food store damaged by Hurricane Sandy, in New York’s South Street Seaport

Ripped from the ground: People pass a fallen tree in the Battery Park neighborhood of Manhattan

Devastation: A fallen tree and power line ripped from the ground outside homes on Harvard Street in Garden City, New York

Fallen trees damage homes and vehicles in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of New York

Broadway Avenue in Pleasant Beach, New Jersey is littered with boats washed ashore by Sandy

Workers clear a fallen tree blocking East 96th street in New York’s Central Park

Water rushes into the Carey Tunnel (previously the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel) in the financial district

As the storm continued to move north, large waves broke on the shores of Lake Michigan, dominated by the Chicago skyline.

Some householders found unexpected objects in their buildings when they returned home – like this canoe which made its way into the lobby of a block of flats in Sheepshead Bay, in Brooklyn.

Damage from the storm is estimated at up to $20bn (£12.4bn). Along the coast, houses were flooded and boats wrecked by the high winds and storm surge. More than 20 people have been killed by Sandy and that number is expected to rise.

First light over Manhattan as New York woke up on Tuesday. Much of the island is without power and much of the city remains closed.

It could take days or weeks to restore services to normal across the mid-Atlantic coast. New Jersey has been among the worst-hit states.

New York police took to boats to ferry powers workers to damaged electricity sub-stations and rescue those caught up in the storm.

A record storm surge of 14ft (4.2m) flooded much of Manhattan, causing widespread damage to cars, buildings and services

With no power, services were dependent on back-up generators. New York’s Tisch Hospital was forced to evacuate patients after its generator failed.

New York’s public transport was shut down because of the threat posed by the storm surge. Governor Andrew Cuomo closed the city’s road tunnels, including the Carey Tunnel, to prevent loss of life.

At least 16 people have been killed by Storm Sandy. A curfew is in place in Atlantic City, in New Jersey, and police are patrolling New York.

Still moving: A vehicle drives on a flooded street in Little Ferry, New Jersey, on Tuesday, after Superstorm Sandy made landfall on Monday evening

Destruction: A beach house is left destroyed in the Bell Harbor community after Superstorm Sandy inundated the Rockaway Peninsular in Queens, New York

Stuck: Two cars sit abandoned in sand swept in by the superstorm onto Long Beach, New York

Upended: Fallen power lines lie across a road in Atlantic City

Submerged: Instagram user ‘Jesse and Greg’ posted this incredible picture of East Village flooding in Manhattan, New York

No way out: Homes in Fenwick Island, Delaware, sit surrounded by floodwaters yesterday

Flooded areas: Highlighted areas show flooding in New York. An unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater – 3 feet above the previous record – gushed into Gotham

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The scale of the devastation left by Superstorm Sandy is mounting today as the death toll continues to rise – currently 50 people across the US and Canada have been reported dead, but the final figure is expected to be significantly higher.

President Obama declared a ‘major disaster’ in New York and Long Island as flooded streets were littered with cars, homes were razed to the ground and tankers washed up on shore.

The President warned that Sandy ‘is not yet over’ and announced that he would visit New Jersey on Wednesday to visit the scenes of the destruction.

Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in New York and the transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway are all out of action after a 13ft wall of water caused by the storm surge and high tides brought severe flooding to subways and road tunnels.

Sandy, one of the biggest storms to ever descend on the country, hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time yesterday having laid waste to large parts of the coast during the day.

The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80mph sustained winds, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the death toll in the America’s most populous city is up to ten – two children, aged 11 and 13, were killed instantly in the city by a falling tree. Many of the total number of victims were said to have been killed by falling trees.

Nearly 200 firefighters spent the night battling to get a blaze under control in the Queens, but over 80 homes were flattened in the fire.

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